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'So I joined the gym but it was a proper boy's gym so I ended up getting into building.

'I've never been one to run with the crowd. I'll go against the grain rather than with it because I like to be different.'

She volunteered for the experience because life is usually 'boring' and was painted to blend in with a shelf of drinks in a supermarket.

Body confidence blogger Leyah Shanks, 23, from Edinburgh, wanted to improve her self-confidence and was even propositioned while she blended in with a man giving her his card

Drag queen and librarian Matthew, whose alter ego is Morgan Fabulous, pulled off everything in busy Spitalfields market to blend into a rail of coats

Matthew stripped off before he was painted for the camouflage and had taken off his makeup and wig to take part

Carolyn, right, applied light blue and navy paints all over Matthew to blend in with the coats on the rail

Leya had many people surprised by her camouflage and many people wanted to get a picture or a selfie

But she also wanted to see what it was like to be ignored.

She said: 'When it comes to reaction on how I look in general from people, it's very mixed.

'If for some reason they've got something against you they'll say "oh you look like a man".'

'It's very important for me to stay feminine, to be a woman with muscles.

'If I'm having a bad day and not feeling confident in myself and there's a group of people I'll avoid it because I can't take the fact everyone looks at me all the time. But if they didn't that would hit me just as hard.'

During the experiment she got a positive reaction from shoppers with one complimenting her 'canvas'.

Taylor Crisp, who was born with a shortened femur and had her leg amputated when she was a child, wanted to show her flaws so she removed her prosthetic leg.

Personal trainer Ashley Lewis, 27, from London, wanted to find out what it was like not to have passers-by stare at him

He found his toned physique often attracted attention so wanted to blend in for a change, being painted like the vegetables

Ashley stood completely still next to the display and even had to speak to shoppers for them to notice him

One man walked over unaware and was spooked when Ashley spoke and walked away laughing

She was camouflaged into the wall of a cafe and wanted to help other be 'open' about disability.

She said: 'I want to overcome my fear of having my scars on show. In photos you can cover that but when there are people around in a public place it's different.'

Many people stopped and stared while others took selfies with Taylor but she seemed to enjoy the attention.

Personal trainer Ashley Lewis, 27, from London, wanted to find out what it was like not to have passers-by stare at him.

He said: 'The way I look makes me stand out people look at my arms. I think every guy wants to have a six pack or some sort of definition in their stomach.

'There's a couple of things day to day I look in the mirror and think I'm not happy about this but it doesn't get to me that people look at me.

Fully-tattooed model Alison Ward, 23, from Bath, wanted to feel what it would be like to go unnoticed for a day and herself amongst a pile of suitcases

Alison was tired of being treated differently because of her tattoos and she gave many shoppers at a market a surprise with many clearly shocked

After Alison had been painted she shocked passers-by including one woman who definitely hadn't spotted her, right

'I don't think people are doing it to be spiteful but there are times that people ask "What steroids do you use?" I'm like "I don't take steroids".'

'My biggest fear about being naked and invisible is probably having people walk past me too long and me thinking "wow people aren't actually looking at me anymore".'

Carolyn Roper painstakingly spent five hours blending Ashley's near-naked physique into a stall of tomatoes, carrots and cabbages with her box of yellow, red and green body paints.

Ashley stands perfectly still when he's completely camouflaged into the display of vegetables and one bespectacled man walked up to him completely unaware, until Ashley shouted 'Welcome!' and he appears visibly shocked and turned away laughing.

And a woman in a pink coat strolls up unaware to Ashley and is left blushing when she realised and said: 'Oh sorry,' clasping her hand to her mouth.

Kate, a female bodybuilder, said: 'I want to show I can look like a woman with muscle not like some sort of freak that people just stare at' pictured when Carolyn, left, started painting her

Leyla terrified one woman who clearly catch her breath when she stepped out from the phonebox

She said: 'I'd always been bullied at school for being bigger than everyone else. I want to prove to my younger self that I've got nothing to be afraid of.'

She posed naked to try and widen what's accepted as 'beautiful.'

And she even got a proposition from a passer-by.

Drag queen and librarian Matthew, whose alter ego is Morgan Fabulous, pulled off everything in busy Spitalfields market to blend into a rail of coats.

Matthew started doing drag seven years ago and finds reaction is mixed to his look as some people are 'confused.'

Fully-tattooed model Alison Ward, 23, from Bath, wanted to feel what it would be like to go unnoticed for a day and herself amongst a pile of suitcases.

Alison was tired of being treated differently because of her tattoos and she gave many shoppers at a market a surprise with many clearly shocked.

Carolyn, who's a world champion body painter, said: 'Each paint job had its own unique challenge.

'One of our models is covered from head to toe in tattoos so we ended up having to do the biggest tattoo cover-up ever. And once Taylor takes off her prosthetic, she can't stand for too long so we had to paint her sitting down and blend her body into a chair.'

Channel 4 Naked and Invisible short films are available on All4 now.

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